2016 – Page 135

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced the disbursement of RD$1.6 billion in funds for the 2016 political campaigns. The JCE now will deliver the funds to the authorized political parties. The main beneficiaries are the PLD with RD$429,356,512.80 and the PRSC and PRD minority parties, each of which will receive the same sum. The …

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The National Business Council (Conep) and the Bosses Confederation of the Dominican Republic (Copardom) are calling for “obsolete” labor code to be modified, on the grounds that it allows for the existence of “mafias” of lawyers that promote fraudulent labor cases against companies. The business organizations say the legal actions affect the country’s productive sector …

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Presidential spokesman Roberto Rodriguez Marchena says that President Danilo Medina is not using government funds in his campaign. On the campaign trail, the President travels around the country accompanied by his cabinet officials. Nevertheless, as reported in MetroRD in its 15 February 2016 print version headline story, Rodriguez Marchena argued that President Danilo Medina would …

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Minou Tavarez Mirabal was officially proclaimed as the presidential candidate for the Alianza por la Democracia (APD) political party at an event at the Club Mauricio Baez in Santo Domingo yesterday, Sunday 14 February 2016. She is the daughter of Trujillo-era freedom fighters Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavarez Justo. She resigned as a PLD deputy …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Andres Navarro signed an agreement yesterday, Sunday 14 February 2016 under which the US will provide an additional US$13 million in funding to strengthen local institutions that work on citizen safety, anti-asset laundering units, and the application of laws for combating drug trafficking and administrative corruption. The funds will be assigned …

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The Police announced that 22-year old Kelvin Brito Lopez, one of two men suspected of the murder of a 76-year old German tourist Ernst Gunter Haun on Thursday, 11 February 2016 while strolling along Puerto Plata’s Malecon seafront boulevard, was killed in a shootout with the Police. The other man, identified as Dauris Manuel Felipe …

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El Dia reports that eight people have survived a failed boat trip to Puerto Rico. One of the survivors, Claudio Alejandro Tapia said that 16 men and five women left from Guayacanes beach in San Pedro de Macoris on Wednesday, 10 February 2016. He said that the passengers wearing lifejackets who went to seek help …

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Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns won the 2016 NBA Skills Challenge yesterday, Sunday, 14 February 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Born in the USA to a Dominican mother and US father, Towns has played on the Dominican national team in the past. He was the 2015 No. 1 overall pick. CBS Sports reports that Isaiah Thomas …

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The Vuelta Independencia Nacional, the Caribbean’s leading cycling competition, takes off this Saturday, 27 February from the Mirador del Sur Park in Santo Domingo and continues through Saturday 5 March 2016. Now in its 37th year, there are eight stages for an overall route of 1,050 kilometers that will take the competitors all around the …

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“Mujeres infieles” is a drama being staged at Teatro Caribbean on 16, 17, 19 and 20 March 2016. The theater is in the Silver Sun Gallery on Av. Tiradentes and Av. Gustavo Mejia Ricart in Santo Domingo. The leading roles are played by Ana Carmen Leon, Massiel Taveras and Tueska. The comedy is directed by …

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